My mom bought the movies when I was... about 10 or 11, and I didn't want to watch them, I thought it was just about orcs and big scary spiders. lol! (really, that's what I saw whenever I walked in and my bro and sis were watching it.)
So after a few years, one of my friends saw the movies and was almost obsessed with it... and I was at her house one day, and she was taking quizzes on this site
, and I took a few... not having a clue what anything meant, but it was still fun. hehe
When I got back home, I grabbed the book and started reading it, and finished in a couple weeks. (yeah, it's a long time to read a 1000 or so page book... but come on, it was the first long book I'd ever read!
) And I found out it was about way more than orcs and spiders.
Of course then I watched the movies. And read the silmarillion(partly, it's harder to read than lotr!!), the hobbit, and unfinished tales(mostly). I'm not obsessed with it, although for some strange reason, my friends keep insisting that I am... it's just because they don't like it very much.